From the package's GitHub repository:
"These four color maps are designed in such a way that they will analytically be perfectly perceptually-uniform, both in regular form and also when converted to black-and-white. They are also designed to be perceived by readers with the most common form of color blindness."
- Viridis is now the default color map for
Matplotlib, a key Python plotting library. - Several of the packages we'll look at today use Viridis as the default color map.
- Upcoming versions of
ggplot2will include this color palette